Although Diddy helped Biggie Smalls break into the music industry, some questioned how the music mogul treated his protégé. Rap artist Mark Curry claimed Smalls was essentially broke after signing to ...

Voletta Wallace died earlier this year. She was widely known as a champion for her son Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, before and after his tragic death in 1995. In ...

The backstory: By the time The Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls, aka Biggie, aka Christopher Wallace) readied his sophomore studio album, anticipation was high. After all, its predecessor – 1994’s ...

On Sept. 13, 1994, the same day President Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, rapper Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls, or the Notorious B.I.G., released ...

Biggie Smalls’s mother, a preschool teacher and devout Jehovah’s Witness, didn’t listen to her son’s music until his death. After his killing in 1997, Voletta Wallace’s life’s work became fighting for ...

On the outro to Christopher Wallace’s second posthumous album, Born Again, his mother, Voletta Wallace, says, “The thing that my son loved most about life was the fact that he was in a position to ...

The exact figures of the deal are yet to be disclosed. In the wake of the funeral of his mother Voletta Wallace, a deal has been made forging a partnership between the late Biggie Smalls’ estate and ...